Whether Blackberry BCP-611 Certification Course is Going to Retire

BlackBerry BCP-611 certification course is awarded from BlackBerry and it is specially designed for designing the BlackBerry solution with the IBM lotus domino environment. The exam name for BlackBerry BCP-611 is deployment as well as designing of BlackBerry solution with using the IBM lotus domino server environment. This certification examination is one of the BlackBerry enterprise server 4.1 versions. With effect from September 1st 2010, all BlackBerry 4.1 version examination is to be retired and it is been updated to further upgrades. From September 1st 2010, BlackBerry BCP-611 exam will be upgraded to BlackBerry BCP-621 with the same name BlackBerry solution with IBM lotus domino environment server.

How to maintain with already certified certification?

If you have been already certified with BlackBerry BCP-611 certification or any one of the BlackBerry 4.1 versions certification before, then you need to certify with the new version certification on or before February 28th 2011. All further details are been published in the website and candidates can have a glance in the website for knowing further details.

Examination objectives:

The following are the current BlackBerry BCP-611 examination objective and it is valid until September 1st 2010. They are:

1) BlackBerry enterprise solution architecture
2) Analysis of business needs
3) Analysis of technology needs
4) Designing of BlackBerry enterprise solution
5) Deployment (with a provided scenario)
6) Disaster recovery or highly availability
7) Installation as well as upgrades of BlackBerry enterprise solution
8) Security (for BlackBerry device user)

Before taking up with this examination, it is recommended to have experience to the candidates with the BlackBerry enterprise solution server. You can get some study guides; instructor led training and tutorials as well as other resources from BlackBerry website. There are no prerequisites required to take up with this examination. You can register the exam in online from the prometric website and you can also select your nearest venue. Once you pay the fee of 150 USD for the examination, you can able to schedule your exam time and date.

What is the Microsoft Exam 70-505?

70-505 is mainly to exam the candidate’s ability to create windows form on dot net 3.5. This was released in Feb. 2009.

Who can qualify of this Exam?

Candidates who are supposed to take this exam should

  • Have One year of experience to develop Windows based application using .Net 2.0.
  • Have a good detail understanding of windows form application related to .net framework 3.5
  • Have some programming experience on System windows form object model.
  • Have hands on experience to deploy windows application.
  • Have experience to create data driven user interface.
  • Have good experience to create graphical user interface applications.

Candidate should work in a development team that mainly uses Microsoft visual studio .Net 2008, Microsoft .net framework 3.5 creating windows application.

 After passing this examination candidate can earn credit for this certification:

  • MCTS: .Net Framework 3.5, windows application

How to pass 70-505 Exams?

It is recommended to keep update with all new products, technical knowledge related to the exam. You can join Microsoft forum, community. You can subscribe to various official blogs. So that whenever anything changed you know about that. Microsoft suggests you should have good experience using .Net framework 3.5. There are various practice exams, self guides, self test software, and self test engine to get well prepared before the exam. The following topics should be prepared for this exam.

  • Creating a UI for a Windows Forms Application by Using Standard Controls.
  • Integrating Data in a Windows Forms Application
  • Implementing Printing and Reporting Functionality in a Windows Forms Application.
  • Enhancing Usability
  • Implementing Asynchronous Programming Techniques to Improve the User Experience.
  • Deploying Windows Forms Controls.
  • Configuring and Deploying Applications